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Data Sources

TIDE GAUGE DATA FROM NOAA TIDES AND CURRENTS
Tide Gauge Site #1: Battleship Texas State Park, Texas
Operation: National Ocean Service (NOS)
Coordinates: Lat: 29.7567, Lon: -95.09

6-min Water Level Data
Nov 10, 2003 - Sep 13, 2008

Battleship Texas State Historic Site

​Tide Gauge Site #2: Lynchburg Landing, Texas
Operation: National Ocean Service (NOS)
Coordinates: Lat: 29.765, Lon: -95.0783

6-min Water Level Data
Jan 1, 1996   - Dec 31, 1996
Sep 12, 2000 - Feb 5, 2003
Dec 8, 2015   - Present

​Hourly Water Level Data
Jan 1, 1996   - Dec 31, 1996
Sep 12, 2000 - Feb 5, 2003
Nov 1, 2011   - Sep 30, 2012
Dec 8, 2015   - Present

NOAA tide gauge at Lynchburg Landing, Texas

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​Tide Gauge Site #3: Morgan's Point, Texas
Operation: National Ocean Service (NOS)
Coordinates: Lat: 29.6817, Lon: -94.985

6-min Water Level Data
Dec 31, 1995  - Aug 27, 1996
Jan 5, 1997     - Present

​Hourly Water Level Data
Mar 17, 1993  - Aug 27, 1996
Jan 5, 1997  - Present

​Multi-Media

Tropical Storm Bill (2015)

Hurricane Ike (2008)

Hurricane Alicia (1983)

Brownwood subdivision in Baytown was a beautiful place to live, but its vulnerability to coastal flooding was its downfall. Sea-level rise and subsidence enabled salt-water flooding to occur with increasing frequency through the 1960s and 1970s. In 1983, Hurricane Alicia produced a large surge that destroyed much of the area, causing hundreds of homes to be abandoned. Note: Around 1:30-1:40 into the video a man says he moved into a home that he later learned flooded in Carla in 1961.

Hurricane Carla (1961)